Approaches to Hungarian. Volume 16 : Papers from the 2017 Budapest Conference / edited by Veronika Hegedus, Irene Vogel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vogel, Irene, editor.

Hegedus, Veronika, editor.

Series:

Approaches to Hungarian Series

Approaches to Hungarian Series ; v.16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hungarian language--Grammar.

Hungarian language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2020.

Summary:

This volume contains selected papers from the 13th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian (Budapest, 2017).The contributions address current issues in Hungarian linguistics, including comparisons with other languages (e.g., English, German, Turkish, Arabic, Spanish). Specifically, the phonetics and phonology papers present experimental and corpus studies of /h/ voicing, the acoustics of Hungarian word stress, and vowel harmony in harmonically mixed stems. The papers on syntax and semantics discuss object agreement and its locality restrictions, equative markers in German and Hungarian diachronically and synchronically, anaphoric possessor strategies and definite article distribution, and the semantics of various aspectual adverbs. Experimental studies of information structure examine the linear placement of textually given topical constituents post-verbally, exhaustivity inferences with focus partitioning in German, English and Hungarian, and contextual factors licensing Hungarian structural focus. The broad range of topics ensures that this volume will interest scholars of Hungarian and theoretical linguists more generally.

Contents:

Intro

Approaches to Hungarian

Editorial page

Title page

Copyright page

Table of contents

Introduction

Non-degree equatives and reanalysis

1. Introduction

2. The syntax of equatives

3. Equatives in German

4. Equatives in Old Hungarian

5. Conclusion

Acknowledgements

References

Anatomy of Hungarian aspectual particles

1. Overview

2. Még

2.1 Temporal még

2.2 Comparative még

2.3 Marginality még

2.4 Additive még

3. Templatic meaning

4. Concessive mégis and additives

5. Other accounts

6. Extensions and summary

6.1 Repetitives

6.2 Crosslinguistic patterns

6.3 Summary

Intervocalic voicing of Hungarian /h/

1.1 Background

1.2 Aims

1.3 The acoustics of breathy voice, and acoustic parameters that quantify voice quality in fricatives

2. Methods

2.1 Participants

2.2 Material

2.3 Measurements

2.3.1 Estimation of the voiced part

2.3.2 Acoustic measure of signal characteristics

2.3.3 Statistical analyses

3. Results

4. Discussion and conclusions

Contextual triggers of the Hungarian pre-verbal focus structure

1.1 Hungarian: A free word-order language

1.2 Accounts of word order: Discourse configurationality

1.3 The structures investigated in the present study

1.4 What is Focus?

1.5 Contextual factors commonly associated with preVf and neutral sentences

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1.5.2 Contrast

1.6 The goal of the present study, hypotheses

2. Experiments

2.1 Experiment 1

2.1.1 Participants

2.1.2 Procedure

2.1.3 Materials

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2.1.5 Results

2.1.6 Discussion

2.2 Experiment 2

2.2.1 Participants

2.2.2 Procedure

2.2.3 Materials

2.2.4 Predictions

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2.2.6 Discussion.

3. General discussion

4. Conclusion

Acknowledgement

Testing variability effects in Hungarian vowel harmony

1. Harmony

2. Experiment

2.2 Stimuli

2.3 Method and procedure

2.4 Results

2.4.1 Results by generalized type - Count Effect

2.4.2 Height Effect

2.4.3 Cumulativity 1

2.4.4 Cumulativity 2

2.4.5 Comparisons of C-final vs V-final roots

3. Conclusion

With or without the definite article

2. The background of the study

2.1 Reuland's (2007, 2011) conjecture on dedicated possessive reflexives

2.2 The Hungarian background

3. Anaphoric possessors with or without the definite article

3.1 Pronominal possessors

3.2 The survey

3.3 The primary reflexive as a possessor

3.4 The reciprocal anaphor as a possessor

3.5 The complex reflexive önmaga 'oneself' as a possessor

4. Summary and outlook

Word order effects of givenness in Hungarian:

2. Givenness

2.1 Notions of givenness

2.2 The grammatical marking of givenness

3. Background on Hungarian

3.1 Free word order in the post-verbal field

3.2 Givenness in Hungarian

4. Experimental treatment

4.1 Methods and materials

4.2 Results

4.3 Discussion

5. General discussion

5.1 Syntactic approaches

5.2 A prosodic approach

6. Conclusion

Object agreement and locality in Hungarian

1. Object agreement: Preliminaries

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2.1 Transitive verbs with a DP object: [+def +lak]

2.2 Intransitive verbs with an accusative adjunct: [+def ?lak]

2.3 Verbs with an infinitival complement alternating with an object DP: [+def +lak]

2.4 Verbs with a non-object infinitival complement: [-def ±lak].

2.5 Non-agreeing patterns with infinitival complements: [-def -lak]

2.6 Verbs with an infinitival adjunct: [-def -lak]

2.7 Speaker variation

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3.1 A locality-based hierarchy of verbs based on patterns of object agreement

3.2 What multiple infinitival constructions show us

3.2.1 Definiteness agreement in multiple infinitival constructions

3.2.2 lak-agreement in multiple infinitival constructions

3.3 What is responsible for the blocking effect in type 5 verbs?

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Fixed stress as phonological redundancy:

2. Stress systems and redundancy

2.1 Overview of stress systems

2.2 Redundancy and predictable stress

2.3 Predictable stress: Perception and production

2.3.1 Stress perception

2.3.2 Production

3. Experimental design: Stress production and analysis

3.1 Experimental design

3.1.1 Hypotheses

3.1.2 Procedure

3.2 Stimuli

3.3 Analyses

4. Results: Stress properties in Hungarian, and comparison with other languages

5. Discussion: Effects of predictability and exceptions on the production and perception of stress

6. Conclusions

(Non-)exhaustivity in focus partitioning across languages

1. Focus partitioning: A cross-linguistically unified discourse phenomenon

2. Focus partitioning: Morphosyntax and interpretation

3. Testing for EXH-inferences in an incremental information retrieval paradigm

3.1 Experimental set-up

3.2 Theoretical accounts and predictions for clefts and definite pseudoclefts

3.3 Procedure

4. EXH-inference in German and English clefts: Results and analysis

4.1 Results: A first look

4.2 Post-hoc analysis: Different sub-groups

4.3 Accommodating discourse antecedents (Pollard &amp

Yasavul 2016)

5. Hungarian preverbal focus: Results and analysis.

6. Outlook: Anaphoricity vs. EXH-inferences in focus partitioning

Index.

Notes:

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Includes index.

OCLC:

1152269938